Hi,
How well has media coverd the RMS talk? Any pointers to articles or interviews ?
raj
On Thursday 22 Jan 2004 10:45 am, Rajkumar S wrote:
How well has media coverd the RMS talk? Any pointers to articles or interviews ?
Watch next CNBC TV18 next ShowBiz@10 between 10 - 10:30 pm
This information was provided by Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan, Correspondent, CNBC India.
Regards
Rishi
Today's Economic Times, on its first page, featured a photograph of RMS with the caption "Hats Off: Richard M Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement, is seen during an event at the Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kochi on Friday. Stallman promotes the GNU operating system, a free software that rivals Microsoft's Windows."
A few titles on the last page: "Linux making slow inroads into India" - covering the visit of Matthew Szulik, chairman and CEO of Red Hat to India. "MS' earning down 17%"
Today's Economic Times, on its first page, featured a photograph of RMS with the caption "Hats Off: Richard M Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement, is seen during an event at the Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kochi on Friday. Stallman promotes the GNU operating system, a free software that rivals Microsoft's Windows."
It would be useful to clip copies of the articles that report on FSF India activities such as these.
Ramanraj posts:
"Hats Off: Richard M Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement, is seen during an event at the Cochin University of Science and Technology in Kochi on Friday
This is a run of the Associated Press across India, it has come in many newspapers like the Hindu, the Economic Times, Deccan Herald etc. They have done the Free Software movement a great help, thanks AP.
All online editions of newspapers like the Mathrubhumi, Deshabhimani, Madhyamam, Deepika, the Hindu and the New Indian Express dated Jan 23, Jan 24, Jan 25 have extensive coverage of the RMS talks at Thrissur, CUSAT Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
For the list members' browsing pleasure, some links. There are many more...
o http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/25/stories/2004012504990400.htm
o http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/01/25/stories/2004012500140200.htm
o http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/25/stories/2004012501151100.htm
Our list member Vimal Joseph vimalekm@vsnl.net was assigned as the Publicity Lead for the RMS talk at CUSAT, Kochi. He has a huge collection of the coverage, both past and present. He has done a very good job in compiling all these stuff plus putting together the press kits.
There was one more in The Hindu titled "Software evangelists converge on India"
http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/25/stories/2004012501131100.htm
But, the last paragraph needs a reply:
<quote> However, he [Martin Fink] adds that while open software may provide solutions in the enterprise sector, the Linux desktop is — unlike Windows — not mature and adds that it is ``an area where hype is ahead of reality by orders of magnitude''. </quote>
Ramanraj K ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in writes:
But, the last paragraph needs a reply:
<quote> However, he [Martin Fink] adds that while open software may provide solutions in the enterprise sector, the Linux desktop is ≈ unlike Windows ≈ not mature and adds that it is ``an area where hype is ahead of reality by orders of magnitude''. </quote>
But Linus himself has stated very recently (at Australia) that "while Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other solutions."
[since I was quoting I couldn't change that to GNU/Linux]
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5707 http://tinyurl.com/37fnk
When Linus tells "normal users" I guess he is having people like my brothers and sister (doctors) in mind.
Rgds, anna
Annamalai Gurusami said on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:59:04PM +0530,:
But Linus himself has stated very recently (at Australia) that "while Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other solutions."
[since I was quoting I couldn't change that to GNU/Linux]
Linus may be right. `Linux' might not be ready for the desktop.
But the GNU/Linux operating system is. And people like my mother and sister (I have no brothers) do use it.
Next time anybody tells you that `Linux' is not ready for desk top, ask him to use GNOME, which is part of the GNU project, or KDE, another equally free and user friendly desktop.
The Economic Times has carried a full page feature on free software under the label open source, in association with Red Hat. [Therefore, please turn on your label filters in your mind before reading]. Looks like LIC is the biggest successful user of free software in India.
There is also an ad from Novell in the timesascent issue annexed to ET, calling MCA grads and others to work with them to develop Gnome Desktops etc.
Annamalai Gurusami posts:
But Linus himself has stated very recently (at Australia) that "while Linux is well deep into the server space and market, the home desktop will take 5 to 10 years to be equally competitive with other solutions."
We all know that Linus is not too much bothered about our angle on Computing. So the best thing you should do is to ignore what he says about the future of Computing and instead further it by telling your friends/community about Swathanthra software, about the GNU Project, and above all, about the ethical necessity of sharing.
Maybe we should not give importance to such `predictions'. We have something which is real and usable and that is the GNU/Linux system. My son who is a 4th grade student is a good user of GNU Emacs, he recently taught me how to edit multiple documents using GNU Emacs.
[since I was quoting I couldn't change that to GNU/Linux]
It would do us a great help if such `Open Source' news which confuses many of us here does not get posted anywhere so that it need not be quoted at all. ;-)
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